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DON PURDUE
trekking?
Portland’s White Bird
Dance Takes Flight
and provides a model for Eugene.
A
sk someone in Eugene about White
Bird, and they'll probably direct you
to the treatment center on East 12th.
In Portland, White Bird is of a different feather:
an innovative dance series that's broadening
audiences and building community.
The nonprofit company was the brainchild
of two arts impresarios, Walter Jaffe and Paul
King, and since its founding in 1997 has fea-
tured 75 dance companies, 140 performances
and reached over 150,000 audience members.
In King and Jaffe's vision, Portland could and
would be a home not just for local and region-
al dance, but a stage for the development of
worldwide contemporary performance.
The 2006-2007 White Bird dance series
plays on a successful theme: pack the Schnitz
with some bigger names, like Momix (Oct.
25), Dayton Dance (Apr. 25, 2007), and
perennial crowd-pleasers like Les Ballets
Trockedero de Monte Carlo (Feb. 14,
2007), or The "Trocks,” as these fellows in
size 14 pointe shoes are lovingly called.
But White Bird steps beyond more main-
stream dance to bring the vanguard right to us.
With performances in PSU's Lincoln Hall, the
2006-2007 series focuses on a celebration of
international women choreographers:
Mexico's Tania Pérez-Salas (Oct. 12-14),
The Ivory Coast's Compagnie Tché Tché
(Dec. 7-9), New York's Gina Gibney Dance
(Jan. 11-13, 2007) and from the Netherlands,
Conny Janssen Danst (Mar. 22-24, 2007).
"Most of the companies we program are
making their debuts, sometimes even their
North American debuts,” Jaffe said, referring
to the 476-seat Lincoln Performance Hall
series. “The series is being identified as one
offering often challenging, sometimes
provocative work that incites difference of
opinions. It has become extremely interna-
tional — in the last three years, including the
upcoming one, each of the four companies has
been from a different country."
White Bird's ongoing educational outreach
programs weave dance into Portland tapestry.
"We have brought dance to community cen-
ters, schools and facilities, to those who are
economically or physically unable to attend in
traditional venues," King said.
He said one of the most rewarding pairings
has been with a Portland home for emotional-
ly disturbed and behaviorally delinquent boys.
"All of these activities are essential for build-
ing the future audience for dance and for
bringing the arts into the lives of young peo-
ple," King said.
And to counter wasted seats for a live per-
formance, White Bird offers NEST, "No
Empty Seat Tonight," which allows patrons
with series tickets to donate unused seats to a
school or charitable organization.
Dance needs support: not just ticket sales,
but education and accessibility. If new local
and regional works are to be inspired, chore-
ographers need to see current work by their
global peers. Performers and audiences need a
forum for experimentation and an outlet for
critical thinking.
Audiences, Jaffe and King note, can relate
to dance’s athleticism. "We strongly believe
that anyone can enjoy dance," King said.
With indomitable programming vision
and an affable respect for new audiences,
White Bird Dance offers a model for our
growing community.
For more information and tickets, log on
to www.whitebird.org
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